Peter D. Eades (born 8 January 1952) is an Australian

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, an emeritus professor in the School of Information Technologies at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

, known for his expertise in

graph drawing Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional depictions of graph (discrete mathematics), graphs arising from applications such a ...

. Eades received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

in 1974, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the same university in 1977 under the supervision of

Jennifer Seberry Jennifer Roma Seberry (also published as Jennifer Seberry Wallis, born 13 February 1944 in Sydney) is an Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, currently a professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She was f ...

. He then did postdoctoral studies at the

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before taking an academic position at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

, where he remained until 1991. He was a professor of computer science at the University of Newcastle from 1992 to 1999, and joined the University of Sydney faculty in 2000. As well as his faculty position at Sydney, Eades was also a distinguished researcher at

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.Curriculum vitae
Univ. of Sydney, retrieved 2011-11-09. Eades is the co-author (with Giuseppe Di Battista,

Roberto Tamassia Roberto Tamassia is an American Italian computer scientist, the Plastech Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, and served as the chair of the Brown Computer Science department from 2007 to 2014.

, and Ioannis G. Tollis) of the book ''Graph drawing: Algorithms for the visualization of graphs'', and of the associated survey "Algorithms for drawing graphs: an annotated bibliography". He has also written many highly cited research papers in graph drawing, on topics including spring algorithms, performance speed up with

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methods,. maintenance of the "mental map" in dynamically changing drawings, heuristics for reducing the number of edge crossings in

layered graph drawing Layered graph drawing or hierarchical graph drawing is a type of graph drawing in which the vertices of a directed graph are drawn in horizontal rows or layers with the edges generally directed downwards.... It is also known as Sugiyama-style gra ...

s, and visual display of clustering information in graphs. He was the keynote speaker at the 12th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization in 2006,Keynote Speaker
InfoVis 2006, retrieved 2011-11-09. was one of three invited speakers at the 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation in 2008, and was one of two invited speakers at the 18th

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in 2010. He has been the

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of over 30 graduate students. A workshop in honor of Eades' 60th birthday was held in 2012, as part of the

.Workshop on Theory and Practice of Graph Drawing on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Peter Eades
Univ. of Sydney, retrieved 2012-08-13.

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at the University of Sydney

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